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1772 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar 1772
MDCCLXXII
Ab urbe condita 2525
Armenian calendar 1221
ԹՎ ՌՄԻԱ
Assyrian calendar 6522
Bahá'í calendar -72–-71
Bengali calendar 1179
Berber calendar 2722
British Regnal year 12 Geo. 3 – 13 Geo. 3
Buddhist calendar 2316
Burmese calendar 1134
Byzantine calendar 7280–7281
Chinese calendar 辛卯年十一月廿七日
(4408/4468-11-27)
— to —
壬辰年十二月初八日
(4409/4469-12-8)
Coptic calendar 1488–1489
Ethiopian calendar 1764–1765
Hebrew calendar 5532–5533
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat 1828–1829
 - Shaka Samvat 1694–1695
 - Kali Yuga 4873–4874
Holocene calendar 11772
Igbo calendar
 - Ǹrí Ìgbò 772–773
Iranian calendar 1150–1151
Islamic calendar 1185–1186
Japanese calendar Meiwa 9 An'ei 1
(安永元年)
Juche calendar N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar 4105
Minguo calendar 140 before ROC
民前140年
Thai solar calendar 2315


Year 1772 (MDCCLXXII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Sunday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

  • January 17 – Johann Friedrich Struensee and Queen Caroline Matilda are arrested, leading to his execution and her banishment from Denmark.
  • February 12 – The Virginia Assembly amends an act to describe the punishments for the practice of gouging.
  • February 17 – The first partition of Poland is agreed to by Russia and Prussia, later including Austria.
  • May – The Watauga Association is formed in East Tennessee.
  • June 9 – The British vessel Gaspee is burned off of Rhode Island.
  • June 22 – Lord Mansfield delivers the decision that leads to the end of slavery in England.

July–December

  • August 5 – The First Partition of Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth begins.
  • August 12 – The volcano Mount Papandayan in West Java erupts and partially collapses, the debris avalanche killing several thousands.
  • August 21 – The coup d'état by King Gustav III is completed by adopting a new Constitution, ending half a century of parliamentary rule in Sweden and making him an enlightened despot.
  • September 1 – Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is founded in San Luis Obispo, California.
  • November 2 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.


Births

  • March 10 – Friedrich von Schlegel, German poet (d. 1829)
  • March 15 – József Ficzkó, Burgenland Croatian writer (d. 1843)
  • April 7 – Charles Fourier, French philosopher (d. 1837)
  • April 18 – David Ricardo, British economist (d. 1823)
  • May 2 – Novalis, German poet (d. 1801)
  • May 20 – William Congreve, British rocket pioneer (d. 1828)
  • May 22 – Ram Mohan Roy, Hindu religious and social reformer (d. 1833)
  • July 11 – John Rodgers, American naval officer (d. 1838)
  • August 2 – Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé (d. 1804)
  • August 15 – Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, German inventor (d. 1838)
  • August 24 – King William I of the Netherlands (d. 1843)
  • October 21 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English poet and philosopher, (d. 1834)
  • October 25 – Geraud Duroc, French general (d. 1813)
  • November 18 – Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (d. 1806)
  • date unknown Tuanku Imam Bonjol, Indonesian religious and military leader (d. 1864)

Deaths

  • February 8 – Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales (b. 1719)
  • February 18 – Johann Hartwig Ernst, Count von Bernstorff, Danish statesman (b. 1712)
  • March 21 – Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
  • March 22 – John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
  • March 26 – Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)
  • March 29 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (b. 1688)
  • May 1 – Gottfried Achenwall, German statistician (b. 1719)
  • May 22 – Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (b. 1687)
  • June 15 – Louis Claude Daquin, French composer (b. 1694)
  • June 18 – Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706)
  • June 18 – Gerard van Swieten, Dutch-born physician (b. 1700)
  • August 31 – William Borlase, English naturalist (b. 1695)
  • September 30 – James Brindley, British canal builder (b. 1716)
  • October 7 – John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
  • October 8 – Jean Joseph de Mondonville, French violinist and composer (b. 1711)
  • November 10 – Pedro Antonio Joaquim Correa da Serra Garção, Portuguese poet (b. 1724)
  • November 19 – William Nelson, American colonial governor of Virginia (b. 1711)
  • December 7 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish writer and scholar (b. 1695)
  • date unknown Madhavrao Peshwa, ruler of India (b. 1745)
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